Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about the leader, an English term used to indicate who directs a more or less large group of people, a person with a strong ability to guide and lead towards a goal aimed at satisfying certain needs.
Quotes about the leader
- To be truly great, you have to be with people, not on top of them. (Montesquieu)
- To command does not mean to dominate, but to perform a duty. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- There is only one true leader: one who supports others. He guides people, does not push them; it involves them, it does not force them. He never loses sight of the most important principle behind any human project: people are more important than things. (Swami Kriyananda)
- A true leader has the courage to represent senior management, not to weaken it. (Steve Chandler)
- Anyone who tries to lead others must be able to give up many things. (Goethe)
- I don't think a leader can control his fate very widely. Very rarely can it intervene and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
- Knowing how to command yourself is the first condition for being able to command others. (José Ortega Y Gasset)
- The leader is such because he has done something extraordinary, and the extraordinary, once done, loses its extraordinary character and becomes ordinary. (Seth Godin)
- The people would not choose who can really be useful for the country, but who is better at throwing smoke in the eyes. (Orhan Pamuk)
- Leaders set high standards. They refuse to tolerate mediocrity or inadequate performance. (Brian Tracy)
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- One wonders what is the difference between a leader and a leader: the leader leads, the leader directs. (Teddy Roosevelt)
- The greatness of a leadership is based on something very primitive: the ability to leverage emotions. (Daniel Goleman)
- A leader is a person who helps improve other people's lives or improve the system under which they live. (Sam Houston)
- In a leader, people also look for contact that involves emotional support, in a word, they seek empathy. (Daniel Goleman)
- Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of their adverse odds. They allow the impossible to happen. (Robert Jarvik)
- The world needs leaders with a vision instead of leaders on television. (Lech Walesa)
- The greatest leaders do not deny or stifle the conflict. They see it as an opportunity to move forward. (Stephen R. Covy)
- Motivation requires a calm and concentrated leader, who focuses attention on one and only thing. (Steve Chandler)
- If they didn't pay attention to their inner world, the leaders would be rudderless; if they were unable to grasp the world of others, they would be incompetent; if they were indifferent to the large systems in which they operate, they would be blind. (Daniel Goleman)
- It is difficult to look up at a leader who keeps his ear glued to the ground. (James H. Boren)
- Leaders know how to shake us. They ignite our enthusiasm and animate the best there is in us. (Daniel Goleman)
- The mass is a docile flock that cannot live without a master. She is so thirsty for obedience that she instinctively submits to anyone who proclaims her master. (Sigmund Freud)
- Want to make decisions. That's the most important quality of a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire. (T. Boone Pickens)
- A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's opinion. (James Callaghan)
- The followers make a leader. He reflects more clearly the latent aspirations among the masses. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- The charismatic person is a non-rational, and therefore revolutionary, force that brings about changes by imposing his charisma. (Max Weber)
- When you want the cattle to move in a certain direction, you put yourself at the bottom with a stick and then make the more intelligent cows move in front and go that way. The rest of the herd will follow them, but in reality it will be you who leads them from behind. This is how a leader has to work. (Nelson Mandela)
Aphorisms about the leader
- Many believe that leaders should have charisma. However, charisma is not needed to be effective. Many great leaders do not bother to build a charismatic image; they are lovable, often simple, and show real interest in customers and employees.(Philip Kotler)
- Once a leader is convinced that a particular path of action is the right one, he must not ... be discouraged when the path becomes rough. (Ronald Reagan)
- A people are not led by showing them a future: a leader is a merchant of hope. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- To continue being leaders and leading people, don't stop learning. (Charlie Chaplin)
- Those who try to lead people can only do so by following the crowd. (Oscar Wilde)
- The fundamental task of leaders is to trigger positive feelings in the people they manage. (Daniel Goleman)
- True leadership must benefit subordinates and not leaders. (Robert Townsend)
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. (Ralph Nader)
- The difference between a cult and a religion is that the latter survives its leader. (Rakesh Khurana)
- The chief guides his men; the leader trains them. (Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr)
- Being a leader also means finding creative solutions to problems, that is, taking responsibility for your creativity. (Swami Kriyananda)
- Lying about one's strength is a characteristic of leaders; lying about one's faults is a characteristic of all politicians. (Michael Dobbs)
- You will give the inhabitants of Earth an ideal to fight for. They will hurry to follow you, they will falter, they will fall, but in time they will join you in the light. With time you will help them do wonders. (Russell Crowe)
- The fanatic is a leader in his early days. (Heywood Campbell Broun)
- I've never been the nice leader of the situation, let's not fool ourselves. (Malcolm Mcdowel)
- A man who has the courage of his own convictions will always manage not to make his companions think if there are alternatives to his ideas. (Irving Thalberg)
- Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look at and study the leaders who succeeded you, that's where the charisma comes from, from being a guide. (Seth Godin)
- You can't be a leader if you're not authentic. (Tim Cook)
- I like being a leader, but you can't always be. (Ray Winstone)
- These are difficult times, without leaders chaos reigns. (Antony Hopkins)
- One of the great truths about leadership is that a leader is able to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. (Arnold Glasgow)
- Leadership is about magnetic communications. Leaders have a way of communicating that attracts people to the vision and the horizon. (Doug Firebaugh)
- The leadership does not intimidate me, on the contrary, I play better in the shoes of a leader. I don't feel any pressure and I feel fulfilled. I was born to be a leader. (Morgan Freeman)
- Being a leader of the Jews is not easy: we are a divided, obstinate and very individualistic people capable of faith, wit and high-level controversies. (Shimon Peres)
- Revolutions need a leader, they are built on thought and science, not on ignorance, they advance the country, spread the light on society. The real revolution is a people's revolution. (Bashar Al Assad)
- Too often we have been disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Hanoi and Washington, to believe that after the rain it is clear. (Walter Cronkite)
- To be a great leader it is necessary to become scholars of success and the best way I know is to know the history and biography of men who have already been successful. So their experience becomes my experience. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- You can't be a good leader unless you like people. (Richard Branson)
Phrases about the leader
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. (John Quincy Adams)
- The absolute best leader is the one whose existence is barely known. (Witter Bynner)
- Sailors should be the true leaders of the world for their innate sense of order, duty and discipline. (Nicholas Monsarrat)
- The general of an empire must never arrive in battle with one plane: great art is knowing how to change during the battle! (Gérard Depardieu)
- There is always a place at the top for the brave and committed man. (Thomas Carlyle)
- When you consider the number of men in front of you, think of how many follow you! (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- In the head of the group, the feared father always embodies, the group wants to be dominated by an unlimited power, he is extremely greedy for authority, he has a thirst for submission. After taking the place of the ego ideal, the primitive father represents the ideal of the mass that dominates the individual. (Sigmund Freud)
- A good leader attracts good collaborators - or, in some cases, simply infuses them with his magnetism, so that they become good. (Swami Kriyananda)
- The boss depends on the authority; the goodwill leader. (Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr)
- Exceptional leaders step outside of their realm to increase their staff's self-esteem.If people believe in themselves, it is incredible what they can accomplish. (Sam Walton)
- Anyone who thinks they are driving others and has no one following them is just taking a walk. (John Maxwell)
- Choose your people carefully. A correct selection is 95 percent of the success as a leader. (Brian Tracy)
- The president, in particular, is only a figurehead: he does not in fact exercise the slightest power. It is yes chosen by the government, but the qualities it must demonstrate are not those typical of the leader: its fundamental quality is knowing how to provoke scandals. (Douglas Adams)
- A state is governed better by a good man than good laws. (Aristotle)
- If the leaders are unable to break with the past, to abandon yesterday's logic, they will not be able to create tomorrow. (Peter Ferdinando Drucker)
- A boss is a man who needs others. (Paul Valéry)
- The only trait that truly unites all effective leaders, if ever there is one, is motivation, a form of self-management that allows us to mobilize our positive emotions to project ourselves towards a goal. (Daniel Goleman)
- A people leads by indicating a future: a leader is a seller of hope. (Honoré De Balzac)
- The more a man has power over others, the more he must overcome them by virtue. Nobody should rule unless it is better than the governed. (Publilio Siro)
- I'm not interested in being a leader, but in being part of a winning team. (Jane Pauley)
- Managers are people who do things right. Leaders are people who do the right thing. (Warren G.Bennis)
- Crowd drivers, most of the time, are not intellectuals, but men of action. They are not very clairvoyant, and they cannot be, since clairvoyance generally leads to doubt and inaction. (Gustave Le Bon)
- The spirit of each group enterprise is always a reflection of the spirit of the leader. (Swami Kriyananda)
- Real leaders must be able to sacrifice everything for the sake of their people. (Nelson Mandela)
- The good warrior is not aggressive, a good fighter does not let himself be angered. Those who know how to win do not need to fight, those who know how to guide human beings put themselves at their service. (Lao Tse)
